On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:54 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, it used to be that grub, the original > version not the current bloated one, had to have ext2. The upstream version. Various distributions added ext4 support to grub1 (circa 2009, IIRC). None of the patches were upstreamed because grub1 development was closed. > If I recall correctly, a ext4 file system can be *read* the same as > ext2. The difference is the journal. That's true for ext3. For ext4, you have to ensure that some ext4-specific features are off for it to be read as if it were ext2.
